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12/15/33
BUSINESS LETTER NOTES
An analysis of programs revealed that during 1933, education occupied 21.15 percent of all NBC's time on the air. Music occupied more than two-thirds of the company's time on the air. The broadcasts through its two networks of 86 stations totalled 330,540 station-hours for the year.
"Tonight I am here in the Columbia studios. on Madison Avenue in New York City", said 0. H. Caldwell, former Federal Radio Commissioner in a broadcast last Tuesday night. "If I open a window, and let these words as you now hear me, go out across Madison Avenue and echo back, the sound waves will echo back into the window, from the building opposite, in just about the same time as it takes my words, carried on Columbia's short¬ wave station, to go clear around the globe and be picked up again here in New York."
Thomas P. Littlepage, well known radio counsel, and former President of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, suffered a broken arm in a fall following a storm in the Capital Wednesday which covered the sidewalks and streets with ice and sleet. Mr. Littlepage is reported as resting as comfortably as could be expected under the circumstances.
The Metropolitan Opera broadcasts, carried for two years as a sustaining feature by the NBC will be sponsored this year by the American Tobacco Company. They will begin Christmas Day with "Hansel and G-retel" and will be carried by both WEAF and WJZ networks*
A circuit court action against the Sioux Falls Broad¬ casting Co* j operators of Station KSOO at Sioux Falls, S.D., to recover a judgment of $1,440 and interest, has been filed by attorneys for the Electrical Research Products, Inc., New York City
The New York firm's complaint alleges that it leased equipment to the defendant company for radio station work. Under terms of a contract, the Sioux Falls company agreed to pay $100 a month, but payments are in arrears, it is charged.
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